Nashville Predators' Filip Forsberg reveals mysterious injury that kept him from practice

Nashville Predators forward Filip Forsberg finally revealed the mysterious injury he'd been battling the second half of the season.

The injury − which was not significant enough to keep him out of the Predators' lineup − related to a shot block he took to his foot sometime in mid-February.

"It was a bone bruise that cut my leg on my ankle," Forsberg said on Tuesday. "Made it kind of hard to put on skates."

Forsberg said while he could walk, run, or jump with no problem when not wearing skates, the minute he put the foot into his skates, the pain would return.

"The second you put your foot in the boot, it was like somebody was putting a knife right back into that wound," Forsberg said.

The injury initially required stitches to repair the wound to the skin, but it was the bruised bone underneath that caused the main problem.

"At that point it was just about the pain management," Forsberg said. "A bone bruise is the best way to describe it. It felt weird at one point not practicing, because I felt really normal until I put that skate on."

Forsberg began missing practice sometime around Feb. 15, the same time that the Predators went on their franchise record 18-game point streak. Forsberg scored 15 goals and 13 assists during that streak, on his way to a record-setting season for the Predators.

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Forsberg credited the work of the Predators' training staff for keeping him available for games and able to play through the pain.

"They did a phenomenal job keeping me ready and everything that they did," Forsberg said. "I owe them everything."

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